INFORMATION FOR MEMBERS

The Leadership Assembly ratified the proposed plan for 2014, and created a subcommittee to propose a specific increase in our revenue. This subcommittee presented its proposal back to the stewards on June 14th.The full membership vote over this proposal to make our …

On Friday, over 100 of our elected bargaining committee members met with both security and janitorial companies, before our deadline for a new contract. After more than 31 hours of marathon negotiations through the night, the janitorial companies agreed to …

Which one do YOU call “Bargaining?” (please choose one) 1) A company only offers us 5 dates to negotiate since our contract convention. They cancel one meeting at the last minute, and come 4 hours late to another one. …

After five full days of negotiations, the companies still can’t seem to get themselves together. At the last meeting on December 27th, the companies didn’t come until 1:30pm (we started at 10:00am) and then at the last minute they announced …

Companies drag their feet, but Janitors just get stronger and stronger! Over the course of four negotiation sessions since November, the companies have just gone in circles. They still haven’t agreed to a single article we proposed, but they …

On November 28th your elected union bargaining committee presented the companies with our proposal to move our industry forward. In the second meeting on December 12th the companies gave their written responses to the janitors’ proposals. The companies refused to …

Local 26 Security Officer Bargaining Update #1 On December 10th, the union security officer negotiation team met with the companies for just the second time since our contract convention last month. We proposed 6 additional dates to meet. The companies …

Unlocking a Better Future for MN: Proposed Principles for our Union Contract Negotiations More than 7000 janitors, security officers, airport service workers, and retail cleaners are standing together to improve our sub-contracted industries. We stand up not only for ourselves, …

At the first annual Minnesota Ethnic and Community Media Awards last week, a reporter won top honors in the Community Services division for her three-part series in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder that covered the contract battle and groundbreaking one-day strike waged …

Check out the new video by Labor Education Service of our skyway march for Good Jobs and a Green Future last Wednesday! And this video of our contract kickoff last month! Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

In April 2011, at the annual leadership assembly, the membership decided we needed to focus on improving our grievance handling. So in July, we began to develop a new system of grievance handling. Previously, staff worked in the dual role …

Investigators: A Window Washer’s World Updated: Thursday, 10 Nov 2011, 11:22 AM CST Published : Wednesday, 09 Nov 2011, 7:13 PM CST The center of the city shines only because there are a few workers who will brave any height …

On Saturday, November 10th, over 130 Security Officers, Window Cleaners, and
community supporters packed into a union meeting to kick off our 2007 Contract
Campaign. The Security Officers and Window Cleaners of our union, SEIU Local 26, elected their
bargaining teams and voted unanimously to ratify their contract goals for
upcoming negotiations.

Last year, private security officers in the Twin Cities signed a contract that sets a new market standard for equipment and training, affordable health care, and professional pay. Every major private security contractor in the Twin Cities region has recognized …